The Top 25 Strangest College Courses: Even Stranger Than You Might Imagine!

30 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Internets, odd & fun

Our friends at CollegeDegree.com have put together a really great list of quite bizarre college courses. Yale has its fair share of these, especially through the residential college seminar program, though none got recognized for the list here.
Devising exciting course names is a careful art, from the one-word pleasers (I shopped a mathy philosophy [...]

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Keeping Busy at school: Read my Yale Herald column!

21 Oct

Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Ivy League, Student Life, Teenagers, Yale, odd & fun, personal

Sorry to have been out of the loop, it’s just midterm season here. I have been doing some other writing, though (and feel a little like I’m cheating on my blog-readers as a result) and thought I would share it to tide you over for a little bit.
My column in the Yale Herald is about [...]

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Naked Parties at Yale: a random note

15 Sep

Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Esoterotica, Ivy League, Student Life, Teenagers, Yale, odd & fun

Some of you may be familiar with the concept of naked parties popular at college campuses across the nation but perhaps especially Yale; in any event, I thought I would attach a relevant email sent to the freshman class about something its anonymous author purports to be the first Pundit-sponsored prankish naked party of the [...]

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Yale is amazing beyond my wildest hopes and dreams in ways I never imagined!

05 Sep

Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Ivy League, Student Life, Teenagers, Yale, education, odd & fun, personal

Today was the first day of classes at Yale, and I decided it was time to finally start getting back into the blogging spirit. What better way to start than a proclamation of my love for this new place?
I don’t know that I can sufficiently articulate my supreme delight and excitement for the next four [...]

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Fact: Your SAT may be recycled.

31 Jul

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College Board, odd & fun

Just a quick mention to get out this scary / funny word out: Our friends at ePrep wrote way back in February that SAT tests were being recycled, and no, I don’t mean the paper. FairTest Examiner wrote in April about the same issue:

The College Board cancelled the January 28, 2007 SAT scores [...]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a sophomore at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale, and am an official Yale blogger. Click here to read my 'about' page.

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